The chemical speciation of heavy metals (arsenic, chromium, copper, lead, zinc and tin) in the sediments of former tin mining catchment Bestari Jaya, Peninsular Malaysia was determined by using the latest version of the Community Bureau of Reference, usually called the BCR 3-step sequential extraction procedure. Furthermore, a fourth step was introduced for digestion and analysis of the residue...

Contamination of the water bodies occurs from different sources including oil refineries. Oil refinery effluent contains different chemicals at different concentrations including ammonia, sulphides, phenol, hydrocarbons and heavy metals. Monitoring the impact of pollutants on aquatic life forms is challenging due to the differential sensitivities of organisms to a given pollutant, and the inabi...

The ban of organochlorine pesticides in Bulgaria (1969) has led to their significant drop below the maximum residue limits. The climate and the imperfect storage facilities benefit the production of Fusarium toxins desoxynivalenol (folytoxin), zearalenon (F-2), T-2, ochratoxin A and aflatoxins in grain products, M1 in milk products, and patulin in apple juices and nectars. Heavy metals are foun...

The industrial solid waste recycling team at North Minzu University has done much research on resource utilization of magnesium slag. This chapter mainly introduces a discussion includes the use slag to prepare glass ceramics, porous and sulfoaluminate cement clinker, fixing/stabilizing heavy metals in acidic residue generated by lead-zinc smelting, modifying copper

Concentrations of heavy metals exceed safety thresholds in the soil near Janghang Copper Refinery, a smelter in Korea that operated from 1936 to 1989. This study was conducted to evaluate the level of exposure to toxic metals and the potential effect on health in people living near the smelter. The study included 572 adults living within 4 km of the smelter and compared them with 413 controls g...

This study investigated the potential effect of climate changes on stormwater pollution runoff characteristics and the treatment efficiency of a stormwater retention pond in a 95 ha catchment in Denmark. An integrated dynamic stormwater runoff quality and treatment model was used to simulate two scenarios: one representing the current climate and another representing a future climate scenario w...

Establishment of a petroleum refinery in 1916 near the headwaters of Bayou Trepagnier with subsequent dredging of the bayou resulted in spoil banks containing high levels of Pb. A large swamp abuts the eastern bank of the bayou. Cores were taken from 15 baldcypress [Taxodium distichum (L.) Richard] trees growing in the swamp along a 610-m transect (nine trees) and a 183-m transect (six trees) r...

Diffuse pollution sources have been recognised by the European Water Framework Directive to significantly contribute to pollution of stormwater receivers. Stormwater runoff is considered to represent diffuse pollution sources. The aim of this study was to clarify the contributions of specific sources in the urban environment to the content of organic and inorganic pollutants in stormwater. This...